“I’m not sure yet what I want to be when I grow up,” Hebron High School Senior and Dale Jackson Career Center Hospitality Student Skylar Nedd said. “But this certainly opens doors and gives me experience and hands-on knowledge...
LEF received exciting news — perhaps the most exciting news in LEF history! In short, LEF comes out on top when measured against peers! The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, as part of a nationwide survey by an independent firm,...
Last year LEF funded a grant written by Lewisville High School Orchestra Director Kevin Sluder. “Playing a string instrument can be very expensive, and that is just for the basic instrument/bow setup,” Sluder explained. “Making training and tuning items...
What’s next? Parents, teachers and students wonder that each day. For many, the answer is simple: whatever comes next in a standard progression. What about students whose standards are different? Students in LISD’s Focus on the Future (FoF) program...
Preserving the memory of Cain Sczepanski, a Lewisville ISD student whose life touched all who knew him, while honoring LISD educators whose daily work changes children’s lives, is what the Cain Sczepanski Award of Excellence in Special Education aims...
LEF is pleased to announce LHS Social Studies teacher Rob Borenstein as the 2014 Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who taught at Lewisville High School for 25 years before losing...
“My nana bought me new garden gloves to use at the garden today,” she said as she led the way to the Lakeland Elementary section of the Lewisville Community Garden. She is Gia Clement, a first-grade student at Lakeland...
Lewisville ISD Education Foundation awarded $127,600 in scholarships to 198 seniors from the five LISD high schools. Six LISD employees also received $3,500 in fellowships to assist as they seek to advance their education with postsecondary degrees. LEF’s 2014...
Max Goldsmith, LISD Athletic Director (1966-1983) A 1940 graduate of Lewisville High School (LHS), Max Goldsmith returned to LISD in 1966 after a very successful 20-year career in Andrews, Texas, where he built from scratch an athletics program that...
Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) partnered with the Verizon Foundation and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to award Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School Killough (Killough) Campus with the Verizon Innovative Learning School Grant. The application process...
Hedrick Middle School (HMS) students in Julia McCloud’s English Language Arts (ELA) classes are experiencing learning differently than ever before thanks to collaboration between McCloud, HMS Principal Barbara Hamric and LEF. “There was so much talk about changing learning...
From whence we came… Lewisville ISD Education Foundation was founded in 1990 to enrich the quality of public education in the 13 communities served by LISD and serves as a vehicle for securing private funding benefiting LISD teachers and...
From whence we came… Lewisville ISD Education Foundation was founded in 1990 to enrich the quality of public education in the 13 communities served by LISD and serves as a vehicle for securing private funding benefiting LISD teachers and...
For the second consecutive year, students in The Colony High School’s AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination) program reap the benefits of E-Prep test preparation software thanks to Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) grants sponsored by Aramark and CoServ Electric....
2 (2nd grade teachers) x 2 elementary schools + 40 eager learners = collaborative learning of the highest (and most engaging!) order. Hebron Valley Elementary second-grade teacher Tina Montegudo had an idea. And as she frequently does when she...
When Wellington Elementary School teacher Gina Alday had the opportunity to transition from teaching fourth grade to working in the Specials Rotation as the Science Discovery teacher, she was ecstatic. But on the heels of the excitement came a...
